Pyramiden 
Description
This was the model Soviet mining town, designed to show the west that the USSR was best at everything - helped by handpicking only those workers that the USSR wanted to show off. By the late 1990's with the USSR gone, the numbers of people in the down already significantly reduced, and the costs of maintaining a settlement so far north mounting the decision was taken to abandon it as soon as the first ship of the season could get through. Consequently on 31st March 1998 the entire town was evacuated at short notice meaning coffee cups were left abandoned with coffee still in them, papers left of tables half read. Due to the Arctic climate it's predicted that the site is unlikely to decay much in the next 500 years and is now a small time capsule of a different era.
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Getting There
The only way to reach Pyramiden are via snowscooter or boat. Boat tours run on alternate days most of the year (alternating with a boat trip to Barentsburg) leaving Longyearbyen around 9amLatitude: 78.655899; Longitude: 16.346283
What3Words: setups.astrophysical.greetings
